Ypres Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Sunday 26th April After a solid sleep we left for Belgium to pick up our guide Les for another day. Along the way we went down a blocked side street. So our buses had to do a 3-point turn (more like a 20-point turn). OMG the other tour bus absolutely destroyed someone's well manicured garden bed and probably its driveway as well (see photo). Her...

Driving is becoming increasingly tiring because of the immense amount of heavy traffic. This area is heavily industrialized and the motorways have three lanes travelling in either direction (speed is fast). Trucks here must stick to the far right hand lane and the two left lanes are for cars and overtaking. We find our way more by accident than ...

Quick showers and a little sleep for Joel set us up to head out again. The Menin Gate was worth the wait. It is very sobering to see the roads which so many Australian soldiers of the First World War marched out on and fewer returned. We arrived just in time and the parking Gods were kind to us with a park 150m from the entrance. The place was f...

This road trip turned out to be quite a lesson in war history. Figured since we were almost there as it was, we had better check out Flanders while we had the chance. Definitely haven't seen so many graves in my life. We bought a map of the war sights in the area and spent the day on a driving tour. Similar to the D-Day beaches, this tour of the...